Facts from The Texas Coaster

Fort Bend County is absolutely unsurpassed
in America for fertility. It will not produce wheat, because it is
not a wheat country. It has the finest rice lands in the world,
which are being rapidly developed. Its prairie lands yield from
one-half to one bale of cotton to the acre, from twenty to forty
bushels of corn, and all kinds of fruits except apples and other
fruit requiring a cold climate. Oats will yield from thirty to forty
bushels. Water can be obtained at fifteen to forty feet, and it is,
good and clear. The bottom lands will produce from one to two bales
of cotton, and from forty to eighty bushels of corn to the acre, and
everything else that the prairie will yield. As a fruit country, no
place can surpass it, and truck gardening cannot be done mare
successfully anywhere.

It has
fine cane lands, there being two large sugar mills in the county.
There is also a paper mill.

Its market facilities are good. Two
large cities, Houston and. Galveston, are but an hour's ride by rail
from the county, while two trunk lines traverse it at right angles,
leading to the principal points east and north.
The 'school and church facilities of the county are good and
constantly improving, and the society will compare favorably with
the most enlightened and, cultured of the older States. The laws are
administered by the best set. of officers in Texas, and the
evil-doers have a "rocky road to travel."

Taxes are lighter than in most of the counties of the State. Lund
can be had at from, $5 to $30 an acre, accord-ing to location, but
is rising rapidly.

Tho climate is mild. In winter it rarely goes below thirty degrees,
while the summers are tempered by the cooling breezes of the gulf.

Politics cut but little figure. The county government is by and for
the people, and under its system corruption is impossible.

The soil throughout the county is from eight to twenty feet deep,
and is inexhaustible. Fertilizing is never resorted to, and is never
needed. The soil ranges from sandy loam to black waxy. There is no
stone or rock in the county to retard farm work. It is all pure
soil, deep and rich, and highly susceptible to the touch of man. A
small farm properly worked will yield its owner more clear money and
comfort in Fort Bend County than almost anywhere else.

In fact, to the prospective settler there is no more favored country
on God's footstool than old, Fort Bend County.

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